Lincoln Funders Support Indian Center Food Delivery
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12/1/2009
Lincoln Funders Support Indian Center Food Delivery
Thanks to contributions from three local funders, in November the Indian Center purchased a new delivery vehicle to replace “Ol’ Yeller,” the ancient truck used for 12 years to deliver food to over a thousand low-income residents.
The Community Health Endowment, Cooper Foundation, and Lancaster County Keno Human Services Prevention Fund together contributed $37,000 toward the cost of a 2009 Chevrolet CC5500 from Sid Dillon Chevrolet in Wahoo. The vehicle will be used to deliver monthly food packages to 1,500 elders, new moms, and young children in Lancaster, Otoe, Saunders, and Cass counties. The Commodity Supplemental Food Program, funded for the past 29 years by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, is the only one of its kind in this part of the state.
Additionally, the Lincoln Community Foundation and Duncan Family Trust contributed generously to the food program itself.
The new Chevy has nearly double the payload of the old truck. This is important because the number of people receiving food packages jumped 30% in 2009. For information on food assistance, please call CSFP Director Cal Pekas at the Indian Center, (402) 438-5231.
On behalf of all the people who benefit from this much-needed program, the Indian Center extends deep thanks to our local funders.
--Elizabeth Wolf, Indian Center, Inc. Director of Development (402.802.7053 or elizabeth@goodmedicine.biz)